150 Quotes by Muriel Spark

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.